Breakdown of En tiedä, miksi katoamista ei tutkittu.
ei
no / not (negative verb)
tietää
to know
miksi
why
tutkia
to explore / to investigate / examine
katoaminen
disappearance
Questions & Answers about En tiedä, miksi katoamista ei tutkittu.
How do we form the negative past passive in ei tutkittu?
To say something was not done, you use the negative word ei followed by the passive past participle of the verb. For the verb tutkia (to investigate), the passive past participle is tutkittu. The negative word is always ei in the passive, because the passive acts like a third-person singular.
Why is katoamista in the partitive case?
It is the object of the sentence, and the action is negative (ei tutkittu). In Finnish, if an action does not happen, the object receiving that non-action is always in the partitive case. The basic dictionary form is katoaminen, which becomes katoamista in the partitive.
Where does the word katoamista come from?
It is built from the verb kadota (to disappear). By adding the -minen ending, it becomes the noun katoaminen (the disappearance). When you put a -minen word into the partitive case, the stem changes to -mis-, resulting in katoamista.
Why is there a comma before miksi?
English usually does not put a comma before a question word in the middle of a sentence, but Finnish punctuation rules require it. A subordinate clause starting with a question word like miksi must be separated from the main clause (En tiedä) by a comma.
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